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WINCHESTER, James Ridout<\/strong>, D.D.; born Annapolis, Md., March 15, 1852; descendant from the colonial governors of Maryland on maternal side; 9th son of Jacob and Mary (Ridout) WINCHESTER<\/strong>; educated in Virginia Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Va.; graduated from Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Va., with B.A. and B.Ph. degrees, 1874; and D.D. conferred by University of the South; and “The Alexandria Theological Seminary” in 1877; married Eliza Atkinson LEE<\/strong>, daughter of Judge Richard Henry and Evelyn (Byrd) LEE<\/strong>, of Clark Co., Va., in 1878; member Masons, Scottish Rite 32d degree, Past Master Lodge Perfection, Macon, Ga., Past Preceptor Memphis Consistory, Past Grand Prelate Knights Templar, Ga., member of Al Chymia (Memphis) Shrine; Past Grand Master I.O.O.F., member of K. of P., Delta Kappa Epsilon; Democrat; was appointed chaplain of 1st Tenn. regiment in Spanish-American war by Gov. Robert L. Taylor, resigned; ordained deacon by Bishop Whittle in VA. in 1877, and advanced to the priesthood by Bishop Whittle in 1878; he served as assistant in St. James’ church, Richmond, Va., from July, 1877, to Sept, 1878, under Rev. Joshua Peterkin, D.D.; in November, 1878, entered upon the rectorship of the Church of the Holy Cross, Uniontown, Ala.; in April, 1880, became rector of St. John’s church, Wytheville, Va.; in 1882 Christ church, Macon, Ga.; in 1890 Christ church, Nashville, Tenn.; in 1898 the Ascension, St. Louis, Mo.; in 1906 became rector of Calvary Episcopal church, Memphis, Tenn.; since 1886 he has been a regular delegate to the general conventions of the Episcopal church, and is president of the standing committee of the diocese of Tennessee; examining chaplain of the diocese; he was recently selected as one of the alumni of Washington and Lee University as foundation member of the classical fraternity known as the Phi Beta Kappa; he is interested in sociological questions; member of Society of Charities and Correction; has contributed to magazines and journals; Bishop of Diocese of Arkansas.<\/p>\n Source:\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/em>.<\/span> Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Memphis WINCHESTER, James Ridout, D.D.; born Annapolis, Md., March 15, 1852; descendant from the colonial governors of Maryland on maternal side; 9th son of Jacob and Mary (Ridout) WINCHESTER; educated in Virginia Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Va.; graduated from Washington & Lee University, Lexington, Va., with B.A. and B.Ph. degrees, 1874; and D.D. conferred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,261,4415,4062,4419],"tags":[3716,295,3715,1870],"class_list":{"0":"post-11393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-shelby","8":"category-surname-w","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-byrd","12":"tag-lee","13":"tag-ridout","14":"tag-winchester","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14439,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11393\/revisions\/14439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}